OXON HILL, Md. (AP) Reliever Joaquin Benoit and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized a $7.5 million, one-year contract, part of the team's efforts to rebuild its bullpen.

"It's important in a bullpen to have different styles of pitchers, right?" Philadelphia general manager Matt Klentak said Tuesday at the winter meetings. "Ideally, you'd have some righties and some lefties and some more experienced players blended with some younger players, and fastballs and sliders and curveballs."

Benoit, a 39-year-old right-hander, has had an ERA under 3.00 for six of the past seven years. He was 3-1 with a 2.81 ERA last season, including a 0.38 ERA after the Toronto Blue Jays acquired him from Seattle in July for reliever Drew Storen. Benoit averaged 9.75 strikeouts per nine innings.